Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
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I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
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Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
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Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
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I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.
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I'm not satisfied. I'm still enjoying this. I still feel like I'm in the best part of my career and I can play at a high level. This is what I love to do: playing football and winning games.
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On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
